'The Boys' boss Eric Kripke shares how a Cecily Strong 'Saturday Night Live' sketch was an inspiration for the Starlight storyline on season 4.
Nick is an entertainment journalist based in New York, NY. If you like pugs and the occasional blurry photo of an action figure, follow him on Twitter @NickARomano., the sketch was a big inspiration for the Starlight/Annie January reveal on season 4's"Wisdom of the Ages." In the episode, which dropped on Prime Video this week, Firecracker makes another below-the-belt attempt to smear Annie's name.
"The overturning of Roe v. Wade was happening in real time as we were writing, so it was definitely on everybody's mind," Kripke tells"Who's Cecily? I'm Goober!" she says in the sketch. "I wish I didn't have to do this because the abortion I had at 23 is my personal clown business, but that's all some people in this country want to discuss all the time, even though clown abortion was legalized in Clown v. Wade in 1973.
"It really moved me," Kripke recalls of watching that sketch. "What I think we were really trying to get across is how common it is, and yet so few women can talk about it. So we were like, 'Let's just throw it out there and deal with it.'" The writers' room tried to handle the storyline for Annie as realistically as possible — despite being set in the over-the-top world of supes. "We spoke to a lot of women who had abortions, but the main thing we wanted to get across was it's not a particularly massive, overdramatic thing. It's a thing that thousands and thousands and thousands of women go through," Kripke continues. "We just wanted to normalize it a little bit.
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